technophilia

I'll be brief. Because the Python "lxml" module doesn't support XSLT 2.0 functions, I was looking at support for EXSLT … … but then stumbled on how to write my own functions and call them from stylesheets. Freakin' cool. I…Read more

I have a Droid Incredible phone I've had for a few years. It's OK. I'm not too big on phones in-and-of-themselves (seriously people, if you identify with your freaking phone you're a loser) but it is useful to be able…Read more

I'll try to keep this short because it's looking like the weather is going to be agreeable enough for a nice, long Saturday walk. So, I've been working on a mockup API at work that could, among other things, drive…Read more

A couple of years ago while at the University of Alabama, we were using tesseract-ocr to OCR images of old printed texts. At that version of tesseract, without editing the code there didn't seem to be a way to get…Read more

I took April off from blogging after realizing I was over blogging, as opposed to over logging. I'll keep this short. Well, I'll try. I'm shacked up in the apartment due to some unexpected circumstances and yesterday I decided to…Read more

As I mentioned before, I'm playing with the idea of using term generating APIs to build facets in a Solr index project that I'm working on with some people. The results seem really promising. If I wasn't in need of…Read more

Let's forget the fact I've blogged more this month than I intend to in a whole year … What I really want to mention is that I'm reading Dracula by Bram Stoker and noticed these very interesting bits (or should…Read more

Geolocation/geocoding is so "hip" these days. Everyone's so obsessed where where they and other things are. There's almost a comparison with 3-D filmmaking … Funny. Not too many folks seem all that concerned with when things are. Anyway … At…Read more

Last night I installed lxml on my Amazon Linux AMI (ami-31814f58) and it was just as not-straightforward as when my co-worker and I put it on our CentOS server a few weeks ago. So by referring to the yum log,…Read more

I've totally over-blogged this month, but just as a note to self … I've noticed that when using a syntax highlighter with WordPress – I'm using Syntax Highlighter Compress – that using single quotes can sometimes cause the highlighting to…Read more